Individualistic Market Liberalism FeudalismLiberalism Priority of Community Priority

Individualistic Market Liberalism

Feudalism/Liberalism Priority of Community Priority of Individual Tradition Reason Hierarchy – Government as burden of Aristocracy Cooperation Equality – Government as Necessary Evil Competition

Foundations of Liberal Thought • Martin Luther -1517 - Faith • Francis Bacon 1561 -1626 - Science • Rene Descartes -1596 -1650 Philosophy

Thomas Hobbes – Individualistic Roots of Liberalism • Price pg. 27 • Social Contract – Leviathan • Possessive Market Society

John Locke • Theological Defense of Property • Invention of Money • Locke’s Views on Property – industrious and rational versus the covetousness and quarrelsome • The change of government does not nullify civil society and the social contract • Toleration and the private and public realms

Hobbes and Locke • • • Individualism Equality Freedom Lack of Shared Values Necessity of Strong Central Authority Disagreement over the level of Accountability of that Authority

Liberalism becomes Liberal Democracy • James Mill – One person, one vote is necessary to protect individuals from other individuals • Jeremy Bentham - Utilitarianism • John Stuart Mill – On Liberty – Majority Tyranny

Edmund Burke • Disdained abstract politics • Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Pertaining to that Event -1790 • The Species is Wise • Society precedes individuals • Inherited Rights versus Natural Rights • Natural Aristocracy – Government as a Trust